This blog will be a place to post poetry written by people living with Alzheimer's disease. We will focus on poetry that is created as part of the Alzheimer's Poetry Project. We will post information and news about dementia.
We hope this blog is of use to the family members who have a loved one with dementia.

Green is rough.
Green is smooth.
Green is a walk in the new mowed lawn

This poem was created as part of the "Meet Me at MoMA" project. The session was led by Museum Educator, Riva Blumenfeld.
She had participated in staff training I provided at MoMA last year and she used some of the APP techniques
in leading the session. She asked a series of questions:
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF WHEN YOU LOOK AT THIS COLOR PURPLE?
THESE EDGES ARE SOFT LIKE...
IF I WERE TO TOUCH THIS GREEN SHAPE IT WOULD FEEL LIKE...
IF I WERE THE ARTIST I WOULD CALL THIS PAINTING...

The group's answers form the lines of the poem.

Riva and I reconnected last week at the Practice & Progress: The MoMA Alzheimer's Project Exchange
and I was excited to learn from her that she had been using the APP techniques and having success.

Gary Glazner

Sparking Memories: The Alzheimer's Poetry Project Anthology

The anthology has 75 of the poems we use in the project.Essays on how to use poetry to connect with people living with dementia, on why care giving matters, and on the medical implications of using poetry.More info at:http://www.alzpoetry.com

Nútreme Hoy (Nurture me today)

Our new Spanish language anthology contains: essays on how to use poetry to connect to people living with dementia, and how to create a poetry program, as well as poems and Dichos.More info at http://www.alzpoetry.com